| wave | | |
| n. (event) | 1. moving ridge, wave | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water). |
| ~ motion, movement | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. |
| ~ breakers, surf, breaker | waves breaking on the shore. |
| ~ backwash, wake | the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward.; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe" |
| ~ swash | the movement or sound of water.; "the swash of waves on the beach" |
| ~ riffle, ripple, rippling, wavelet | a small wave on the surface of a liquid. |
| ~ crestless wave, swell | the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea. |
| ~ lift, rise | a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground. |
| ~ billow, surge | a large sea wave. |
| ~ tidal wave | a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun. |
| ~ tidal wave | an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide. |
| ~ tsunami | a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption.; "a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes" |
| ~ rolling wave, roller, roll | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore. |
| ~ comber | a long curling sea wave. |
| ~ white horse, whitecap | a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white. |
| n. (act) | 2. wave | a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon.; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves" |
| ~ movement, motility, motion, move | a change of position that does not entail a change of location.; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" |
| n. (event) | 3. undulation, wave | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth. |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ motion, movement | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. |
| ~ gravitation wave, gravity wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light. |
| ~ sine wave | a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve. |
| ~ oscillation, vibration | (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean. |
| ~ fluctuation | a wave motion.; "the fluctuations of the sea" |
| ~ seiche | a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances. |
| ~ standing wave, stationary wave | a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time. |
| ~ traveling wave, travelling wave | a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave. |
| ~ acoustic wave, sound wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound. |
| ~ wave form, wave shape, waveform | the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time. |
| ~ blast wave, shock wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity.; "the explosion created a shock wave" |
| ~ pulsation, pulse, pulsing, impulse | (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients).; "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star" |
| ~ flapping, fluttering, flap, flutter | the motion made by flapping up and down. |
| n. (event) | 4. wave | something that rises rapidly.; "a wave of emotion swept over him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"; "a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right" |
| ~ rise | a growth in strength or number or importance. |
| n. (communication) | 5. wafture, wave, waving | the act of signaling by a movement of the hand. |
| ~ motion, gesture | the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals. |
| ~ brandish, flourish | the act of waving. |
| n. (body) | 6. wave | a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair. |
| ~ coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle | the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair). |
| ~ finger wave | a wave made with the fingers. |
| ~ permanent, permanent wave, perm | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals. |
| n. (shape) | 7. undulation, wave | an undulating curve. |
| ~ curve, curved shape | the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes. |
| ~ sine curve, sinusoid | the curve of y=sin x. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 8. wave | a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures).; "a heat wave" |
| ~ cold wave | a wave of unusually cold weather. |
| ~ heat wave | a wave of unusually hot weather. |
| ~ wave front | all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates. |
| ~ atmospheric condition, weather, weather condition, conditions | the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation.; "they were hoping for good weather"; "every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception"; "the conditions were too rainy for playing in the snow" |
| n. (person) | 9. wave | a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch. |
| ~ reservist | a member of a military reserve. |
| ~ adult female, woman | an adult female person (as opposed to a man).; "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
| v. (communication) | 10. beckon, wave | signal with the hands or nod.; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably" |
| ~ gesticulate, gesture, motion | show, express or direct through movement.; "He gestured his desire to leave" |
| v. (contact) | 11. brandish, flourish, wave | move or swing back and forth.; "She waved her gun" |
| ~ hold, take hold | have or hold in one's hands or grip.; "Hold this bowl for a moment, please"; "A crazy idea took hold of him" |
| ~ wigwag | send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code. |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| v. (motion) | 12. flap, roll, undulate, wave | move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ luff | flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides.; "the sails luffed" |
| v. (contact) | 13. curl, wave | twist or roll into coils or ringlets.; "curl my hair, please" |
| ~ twist | turn in the opposite direction.; "twist one's head" |
| ~ frizz, kink, kink up, crape, crimp, frizzle | curl tightly.; "crimp hair" |
| v. (body) | 14. wave | set waves in.; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair" |
| ~ coiffe, coiffure, coif, arrange, do, dress, set | arrange attractively.; "dress my hair for the wedding" |
| ~ marcel | make a marcel in a woman's hair. |
| ~ gauffer, goffer | make wavy with a heated goffering iron.; "goffer the trim of the dress" |
| ~ perm | give a permanent wave to.; "She perms her hair" |
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